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Dr. Andrew Rynne
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Dr. Andrew Rynne

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...problem Is I Am In Chicago. E-mail Is YYYY@YYYY .

...problem is I am in Chicago. e-mail is YYYY@YYYY . I'm 65, and when I was 32 I was lifting weights and they went back uop over my head; I fractured a vertebrae but the worse thing is I herniated L4 & L5 S1. Bad. Had a laminectomy a year later, was better, but being a waiter all my life and carrying heavy trays didn't help. I've (please beleve it doc!!!) 8 coronary stents due to chronic CAD but m y main problem is my pain in my back! I have scoliosis, hypertrophic facets and ligamentum flavum are noted diffusely (whatever that means) MRI also states that dis height is worse at L5-S1, central canal and bilateral mild foraminal stenosis @ L3-4. Left central disc protrusion w/ a partial annular fissure. Foraminal stenosis worse on the left. L-5-S1: Disco-osteophytic bulge. Hyperthropic arthropathy Bilateral foraminal stenosis. At the end of the report it mentions degenerative disk disease, obviously, and several other inconveniences, as I say. I'm going thru a 'flare-up' I call it, I've taken oxycodone 30mg in the past and it is like nectar for the gods for a week or so until I get slightly better, than I stay off them due to the addictive nature of the thing. But I need help now, I'm in Chicago and don't know where to turn. I have Medicaid-Medicare and a $100 bucks. Help! I know the script cannot be called in to a pharmacy. Help, please.
Mon, 21 Sep 2015
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